Tweet your way to a job? Maybe

by Virginia Chen, Dean DeChiaro & Emily Hoerner | Oct 20, 2010 | Business & Tech

WASHINGTON – Mitchell Strobl is your average college junior at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., but the way he landed his new job is distinctly 21st century. “I came across this website [through] a link that was posted [on my Facebook wall],”...

U.N. sees world population up a third by 2050

by Virginia Chen, Dean DeChiaro & Emily Hoerner | Oct 20, 2010 | Business & Tech

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The United Nations on Wednesday stuck to a prediction that the world population will grow by roughly a third by 2050, underscoring the worries about population growth that have contributed to rising prices of agricultural commodities. The...

National debt crisis: how to raise revenue

by Virginia Chen, Dean DeChiaro & Emily Hoerner | Oct 7, 2010 | Business & Tech

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government has an addiction with spending money, and it doesn’t seem to be getting better anytime soon. The current national debt, as calculated by the Treasury as a summation of debt held by the public and intergovernmental holdings, is at...

CFTC stresses global partnerships in tackling OTC clearing

by Virginia Chen, Dean DeChiaro & Emily Hoerner | Oct 5, 2010 | Business & Tech

WASHINGTON – The Commodities Futures Trading Commission’s Global Markets Advisory Committee held a meeting for the first time since the signing of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform. The goal is to figure out how the regulations will affect the global OTC market....

Replacing oil addiction with metals dependence?

by Virginia Chen, Dean DeChiaro & Emily Hoerner | Oct 4, 2010 | Business & Tech

WASHINGTON – Words better suited to a high school chemistry class than a high-level policy debate—terms such as praseodymium and dysprosium—have raised alarms around the world about the future of the alternative energy economy. Seventeen metals on the periodic...